Arson dare brings jail term

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Nov 30, 2012 at 9:35 AMNov 30, 2012 at 9:36 AM

By Daily Telegram staff

A Clayton man who admitted “eggin’ on” friends who burned a vacant house in the village on July 10 was given a nine-month jail term and ordered to move out of Clayton at his sentencing Thursday in Lenawee County Circuit Court.

Michael Andrew Luft, 23, pleaded guilty last month to a reduced charge of attempted aiding and abetting arson. He has been in jail since his arrest in August along with three other Clayton men. Luft was ordered by Judge Timothy P. Pickard to relocate out of the village as one of the conditions of a five-year probation term. He was ordered released from jail after six months to enter a residential treatmentprogram.

Four men have pleaded guilty in the case. The three who have been sentenced so far were ordered to share in paying $54,850 in restitution. The man who admitted actually setting the fire, Shequille Albert Sheffield, 19, was given a 32-month to 10-year prison term.

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